What issues concerned black political leaders during reconstruction
1. What issues most concerned black political leaders during Reconstruction?
Answer: Black leaders were eager to increase literacy and promote education among black people. Republicans created statewide systems of public education throughout the South.
2. What did black political leaders accomplish and fail to accomplish during Reconstruction? What contributed to there successes and failures?
Answer: During the decade known as Radical Reconstruction (1867-77), Congress granted African American men the status and rights of citizenship, including the right to vote, as guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African Americans held public office, from the local level all the way up to the U.S. Senate, though they never achieved representation in government proportionate to their numbers.
3. Were black political leaders unqualified to hold office so soon after the end of slavery?
Answer: They were unqualified to hold office soon after slavery because the amendments disqualified clacks. Yes because the amendments prevented black people to be in office.
4. To what extent did African Americans dominate southern politics during Reconstruction? Should this era be referred to as “Black Reconstruction”?
I was nineteen years old at the time, and I had my own apartment and was in need of a job. My father told me that he had a friend that was a supervisor at La Salle Bank. They were good friends, so he would put in a good word for me. I was called within the next couple of weeks for an interview and got hired on the spot. At that time I didn’t know that this woman was actually my father’s mistress. My first day was good, I learned a lot of things and I was catching on really fast. She called me to her desk and I saw something that destroyed my entire day. I saw a picture of her and my father hugging and smiling. I was livid, but I held my composure and asked her, “When did you all take this
Answer: Black leaders were eager to increase literacy and promote education among black people. Republicans created statewide systems of public education throughout the South.
2. What did black political leaders accomplish and fail to accomplish during Reconstruction? What contributed to there successes and failures?
Answer: During the decade known as Radical Reconstruction (1867-77), Congress granted African American men the status and rights of citizenship, including the right to vote, as guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African Americans held public office, from the local level all the way up to the U.S. Senate, though they never achieved representation in government proportionate to their numbers.
3. Were black political leaders unqualified to hold office so soon after the end of slavery?
Answer: They were unqualified to hold office soon after slavery because the amendments disqualified clacks. Yes because the amendments prevented black people to be in office.
4. To what extent did African Americans dominate southern politics during Reconstruction? Should this era be referred to as “Black Reconstruction”?
I was nineteen years old at the time, and I had my own apartment and was in need of a job. My father told me that he had a friend that was a supervisor at La Salle Bank. They were good friends, so he would put in a good word for me. I was called within the next couple of weeks for an interview and got hired on the spot. At that time I didn’t know that this woman was actually my father’s mistress. My first day was good, I learned a lot of things and I was catching on really fast. She called me to her desk and I saw something that destroyed my entire day. I saw a picture of her and my father hugging and smiling. I was livid, but I held my composure and asked her, “When did you all take this